How Long Before the Regime Falls in Iran?
Opposition to the regime is not just to be found in the clergy. It is wide and deep but also unfocused.
Art Keller
· 12 min read
Margaret Atwood Wrote a Great Novel. Unfortunately, Her Fans Turned It Into a Cult
Atwood’s innovation is to give this dystopian nightmare the distinctly female framing of domestic and sexual enslavement—as experienced by “Offred,” a “Handmaid” assigned to a man named Fred and his wife for surrogate motherhood via monthly copulation.
Cathy Young
· 15 min read
PODCAST 72: Jamie Kilstein and Paul Provenza on the state of comedy
Comedian and podcast host Jamie Kilstein talks to fellow stand-up Paul Provenza about Ricky Gervais’s monologue at the Golden Globes and whether comedy is finally emerging from under a cloud of woke humourlessness. You can listen to more podcasts hosted by Jamie Kilstein here.
Quillette, Jamie Kilstein
· 1 min read
Goa, Gods, Gandhi and Greed: Lessons in Colonialism from Four Boardgames
It’s really a collection of subcultures, since fans of one gaming niche often have little interest in any of the others.
Jonathan Kay
· 13 min read
Why I Resigned from Tavistock: Trans-Identified Children Need Therapy, Not Just 'Affirmation' and Drugs
Separation from the mother is an important part of the infant’s psychological development.
Marcus Evans
· 19 min read
All the Single Ladies
Some women do marry men with less education, though. These women tend to marry men who earn more than them.
Vincent Harinam, Rob Henderson
· 13 min read
Glassdoor Is Broken
In every instance there were detailed discussions about what’s missing and how to do better, delivered in a spirit of “hey, we’re not on a good path here.”
Peter L. Levin
· 12 min read
Studying the Links Between White Supremacist Terrorists and School Shooters
John Horgan, a psychologist who interviewed a large number of terrorists, concluded that they tend to have seven common traits.
Yagil Henkin
· 13 min read
Remembering Roger Scruton, Defender of Reason in a World of Postmodern Jackals
Scruton did not entertain petty prejudices, and had no wish to tell anyone how to live or who to love.
Barbara Kay
· 8 min read
Reflections on Intersectionality
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
PODCAST 71: Daniel Hannan talks about the late Sir Roger Scruton
Daniel Hannan, the Conservative Member of the European Parliament for South East England, talks to Toby Young about his lifelong friendship with the late Conservative philosopher Sir Roger Scruton.
Quillette, Toby Young
· 1 min read
Gambling in a Time of Despair
If lawmakers want to help their constituents fight compulsive gambling, then putting the brakes on legalization is the most impactful policy in the short term.
Roy Wayne Meredith III
· 9 min read
An Evolutionary Explanation for Unscientific Beliefs
To understand morality from an evolutionary point of view, one needs to realize that humans have always existed in groups.
Brandon Bretl
· 6 min read
Demoted and Placed on Probation
One young man said to me, “How did you get tenure?” When I said that I didn’t have tenure he said, “Good! Because you’re not going to get it.”
Stuart Reges
· 14 min read
It’s Time to Pay for Social Media
Breaking up the tech giants would interrupt the network effects that make their products so valuable in the first place.
Tristan Flock
· 8 min read